Features/QED

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Status

  • Base QED is in qemu.git since 2010-12-17 and will form part of QEMU 0.14.
  • Zero cluster patches on mailing list, qemu-iotests under development.
  • Upcoming image streaming patches are prepared.

Features

  • Open specification
  • Fully asynchronous I/O path
  • Strong data integrity due to simple design
  • Backing files
    • Backing files may be smaller than the QED image
  • Sparse files
    • Retains sparseness over non-sparse channels (e.g. HTTP)

Current work

Future Features